Improvement in baling-presses



`La F; W. LIL.ES.

Buma-PRESS.

VPmme 1 Jan.. 11 187s.

MTIERS. PNUTGLITMRWER, WNXNGTDI. l1)4 UNITED STATES PATENT GEEIGEn LA FAYETTE W. LILES, OF ROANOKE, ALABAMA.

IMPROVEMENT IN BALING-PRESSS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 172,132, dated January l1, 1.876; application filed i March 18, 1875.

of Roanoke, county of Randolph and State of Alabama, have invented an Improved Baling-Press.

' The following description, taken in connection with the accompanying plate of drawings, hereinafter referred to, formsa full and exact specitlcation, wherein are set forth the nature and principles of the invention, by which the same may be `distinguished from others of a similar class, together with such parts thereof as are claimed as new, and are desired to be secured by Letters 'Patent ot' the United States.

Myinvention relates to that class of cottonpresses which may be termed horizontah and the nature thereof consists in certainimprovements in the construction of the same, hereinafter shown and described.

-In the accompanying plate of drawings, in Awhich corresponding pants are designated by the same letters, Figure 1 is a plan viewvot the press. Fig.'2 is a side elevation, representing the sections ofthe press-box in an uprightI position. Fig. 3 is a detached view of the section ot' the press-box in which the bale receives its tinal pressure.

In the drawings, A A designate horizontal .'beam's, which .are connected together by the transverse bars C C. B designates the pressing-head or follower, provided with a series of slats, b, and rigidly attached to the followerrod Gr, which extends horizon tally between the said bars C C', and is provided on oneside with a rack,-D, the teeth of which engage with the coil of the follower. Opposite the said pinion are arranged two anti-friction rollers, which Vhinged to the 'under side of the beams A A,

in such a manner that when revolved to an upright position it willpass entirely clear of the section K. The projecting rods l l, attached to the sides ofthe said section K, prevent the` same from being revolved too far in either direction. The bearings upon which said box K revolves are attached to one side of the upright pieces M, instead ot' the center thereof, in order that the said box may, in revolving, pass clear of the bars c c at the end of the frame. n designates a hook, by means of which the part K is held in a horizontal position.

Among the advantages which ow from this construction are, first, two sets ot' hands may' be employed in filling the boxes; second, the boxes are short and convenient; third, the heads of the trampers are above the tops of the boxes.

Having'thu's described myinventioml claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United Statesi The combination of the frame, the section K', hinged to the under side of the frame, and the section K, pivoted to the frame, as and for the purposes described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 6th day of March, 1875.

LA FAYETTE W'ASHINGTON LILES.

Witnesses: Y

S. WATKINS, J AMES DUNCAN. 

